The China challengeChina is not quite Nazi Germany, but there’s no one to hold it in check right now. The US cannot call the shots effectively without courting an economic catastrophe.
June 17, 2009
The meek shall inheritWhen Jesus said the meek shall inherit the earth, one is not sure what he meant. But he sure got it right.
June 10, 2009
How to push reforms under the radarThe president’s address to parliament on Thursday offers a ray of hope on the UPA government’s approach to reforms. The first five years were substantially a washout.
June 7, 2009
We are all racistsWhat the race attacks Down Under tell us is that no one in the world is immune from us-versus-them tribalism.
June 3, 2009
The first reform we need: Fewer ministriesThe Manmohan Singh cabinet has 79 ministers, including the PM himself, and they have been distributed across more than 40-and-odd ministries in various combos.
May 31, 2009
Why UPA-2 may bombWeak governments gave us stronger results. Narasimha Rao’s in 1991 and Vajpayee’s in 1998-2004 gave us reforms and Pokharan II.
May 27, 2009
Forget stimulus or rate cut, the economy will cure itselfIs the worst over for the world economy? Or for India? The US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announced two months ago that he had seen “green shoots” of recovery.
May 24, 2009
How BJP lost the plotThis writer believes that the BJP lost the plot not in March 2009, when the bugle was sounded for the latest election, but in 2004.
May 20, 2009
Mercenary governmentEven if the Congress or the BJP were to win 180 seats, there will be no end to political uncertainty.
May 13, 2009
Socio-capitalism set to become the new economic doctrine?Three seminal events have given rise to a new economic vision. It’s called socio-capitalism.
May 10, 2009
Tiger, tiger burning outAs the bitter ethnic war in Sri Lanka inches towards a bloody climax, the questions that arise are the following: What did the war achieve for either side?
May 6, 2009
Why government should tax less and work moreOne of the key challenges before companies is to figure out what business they are really in. Once this is clear, everything else — strategy, etc — follows.
May 4, 2009
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